liberation

"It's been six months since the liberation and yet there's still no clear path for mothers looking for their children," she says.

Mosley’s introduction provides that frame, calling the combined tales “a twentieth century memoir” and linking them to the fight for liberation and equality.

"That wasn't liberation - it was just a transfer of colonial rule," he said.

It was a liberation, and at a certain point you just realized that, you know what, I don’t have to prove myself to people.

And they remember a time in which the city’s messy urban forms and perceived cultural inferiority provided endless creative fuel, and liberation.